# inn
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĭn, IPA: /ɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* Homophone: in

### Noun

inn (plural inns)
* Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lodging place
** 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 21:[H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
* A tavern.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub
* One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
    the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns
* (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
    Leicester Inn
* (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 12:Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.

#### Derived terms

* coaching inn
* coach inn
* Cross Inn
* innyard
* motor inn
* New Inn
* no room at the inn
* posting inn
* Tram Inn

#### Translations
### Verb

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
** 1714 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Friday, March 5. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:But where do you intend to inn to-night?
** circa 1570, Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1554/2:
    We inned at the signe of the Swan.
** 1606, Sir G. Goosecappe I, iii, in Bullen O. Pl. III:
    I never innd in the Towne but once.
** 1726, Brice's Weekly Journal, 18 February, 3:John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.
** 1885, M. J. Colquhoun, Primes in Indis, I, xiv, 217:I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.
* (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).
** 2018 [1607], Thomas Middleton, Michaelmas term and a trick to catch the old one, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 27:I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
** 1710, New Map Trav. High Church Apostle, 7, quoted in 1901, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901), page 309:
    These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.

### See also

* bed and breakfast
* guesthouse
* hostel
* hotel
* motel

### Anagrams

* NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* in (preposition)

### Etymology

From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in. Cognate with German in, English in. The sense “east” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetan: vago dentro a Axiago (“I go east to Asiago”, literally “I go inward to Asiago”).

### Preposition

inn
* (Sette Comuni, + dative) in

#### Derived terms

* denìnn

### Adverb

inn
* (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside
    Synonym: indar
* (Sette Comuni) east
    Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.I'm going east to Asiago.

#### Related terms

* innante
* innont

### References

* “inn” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

## German
### Preposition

inn [with dative (indicating location) or accusative (indicating movement)]
* Obsolete spelling of in.

## Gothic
### Romanization

inn
* Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

## Icelandic
### Adverb

inn
* in, inside
    Hvenær komumst við inn?When can we get inside?

#### Derived terms

* brjótast inn
* draga inn
* inn við beinið
* kaupa inn
* líta inn
* líta inn á

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

Contraction of finn, from French finir (“finish”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in/

### Verb

inn (medial form inn)
* (auxiliary) Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense.

#### Related terms

* ti finn
* fini

## Middle English
### Noun

inn
* Alternative form of in (“inn”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse inn (“in, into”), from Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”), from *in (“in, into”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* Hyphenation: inn
* Homophones: inn-, in

### Adverb

inn
* inside, in (indicating movement into)
    La oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
* in, into
    Hun gikk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

#### Derived terms

* gripe inn
* innad
* innbefatte
* innblikk
* innbygd
* innbygger
* inndele
* innfall
* innfart
* innflytter
* innføre
* inngifte
* inngjerding
* inngravere
* inngå
* innhegning
* innhente
* inni
* innland
* innlede
* innløp
* innover
* innsamling
* innse
* innside
* innsikt
* innslag
* innspill
* innspilling
* innsprøytning
* innstifte
* innstille
* innstrømmende
* innstrømming
* innsyn
* innta
* inntak
* inntjening
* inntrenger
* innvandre
* innvie
* innånde
* male seg inn i et hjørne

### References

* “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* inn-

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse inn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inː/, /iːdn/

### Adverb

inn
* inside, in (indicating movement into)
    Lat oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
* in, into
    Ho gjekk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

#### Derived terms

* gripa inn, gripe inn
* innavl
* innblikk
* innbygd
* innfall
* innfart
* inngifte
* innhegning
* innhente
* inni
* innland
* innlaup
* innløp
* innover
* innsamling
* innside
* innsikt
* innslag
* innstille
* innsyn
* inntak
* innvie

### References

* “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inn/, [in]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

#### Adverb

inn
* in (with allative direction)
** c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"
    Petrus cnocode forþ oþ þæt hīe hine inn lēton.Peter kept knocking until they let him in.
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35
    Iċ wæs cuma and ġē mē inn laðodon.I was a stranger and you invited me in.
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 7:13
    Gangaþ inn þurh þæt nearwe ġeat.Go in through the narrow gate.
* inside (with allative direction)
    Hit ongann riġnan, þȳ iċ ēode inn.It started raining, so I went inside.

##### Antonyms

* ūt

##### Related terms

* inne

### Etymology 2

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

#### Noun

inn n
* inn

##### Related terms

* innian

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”).

#### Adverb

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)
* in, into

##### Related terms

* í
* innan
* inni

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: inn
* Faroese: inn
* Norwegian Nynorsk: inn
* Old Swedish: in
** Swedish: in
* Danish: ind
** Norwegian Bokmål: inn

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “inn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *jainaz (“that over there, yon”). Cognate with Old English ġeon, Old Frisian jen, jena, Old High German jēner, Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

#### Alternative forms

* enn, hinn

#### Article

inn (feminine in, neuter it)
* the (definite article)

##### Usage notes

The article is often used enclitically, at the end of the noun. This later developed into the definite forms of the noun.

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “inn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in/

### Noun

inn m
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#### Related terms

* càntich

## Skolt Sami
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

inn
* night

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Tedim Chin
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǐn/

### Noun

inn
* house

### References

* Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip